Alex Napalm
02-18-2004, 09:51 PM
Picked this game up last weekend as something myself and 3 friends could play together. First let me say it was something of an impulse buy. I'd heard very little about the game and seen the fairly average reviews (mostly 7's). Let me tell you all that Wrath is a damn fine game if you can gather 2 or 3 or friends to play it with.
The fighting isn't very deep, but there's a lot of strategy to be employed in the actual game that it more than makes up for it. The object of the game is to either control a certain amount of temple points or defeat each opposing armie's God/Demi-God. The action is played out over hexagonal terrain where you move your soldiers. Each unit can gain specific advantages on certain terrain (example: fire units are extra strong on lava terrain. duh.). When two units occupy the same space, a battle takes place. The battles are fought in real time; fighting game style. The actual fighting is fairly simplae and seems like it was meant to be. You really need to choose your battles wisely in Wrath as certain units are just going to kick the hell out of other units. However, with terrain advantages and hazards, any unit has a chance of winning any battle.
The creatures and terrain all look very nice. Not incredible, but they've got a good design to them and animate nicely. The one complaint I've heard about this game time and time again is that the load times are terrible. Not true. While there is a bit of a load time between the start and end of each battle, it's really not that bad. Certainly not nearly as bad as the loads in Unreal 2, the current grand champion of horrible load times. They're noticeable, but not that bad.
If you can get 2 or 3 other players to play against in Wrath, check it out. It's a very entertaining game once everyone figures out the mechanics of it. There's a singleplayer component to it, but I haven't touched that yet. I could see the singleplayer getting boring early on, though. I only reccomend this if you got some friends to play against. I really dig this game.
Also of note. This game was created by The Collective. The same developers who made the original Buffy game (the Xbox exclusive one) and the Indiana Jones game. Good pedigree in my mind.
Anyone else grab this game? Any other thoughts or questions?
The fighting isn't very deep, but there's a lot of strategy to be employed in the actual game that it more than makes up for it. The object of the game is to either control a certain amount of temple points or defeat each opposing armie's God/Demi-God. The action is played out over hexagonal terrain where you move your soldiers. Each unit can gain specific advantages on certain terrain (example: fire units are extra strong on lava terrain. duh.). When two units occupy the same space, a battle takes place. The battles are fought in real time; fighting game style. The actual fighting is fairly simplae and seems like it was meant to be. You really need to choose your battles wisely in Wrath as certain units are just going to kick the hell out of other units. However, with terrain advantages and hazards, any unit has a chance of winning any battle.
The creatures and terrain all look very nice. Not incredible, but they've got a good design to them and animate nicely. The one complaint I've heard about this game time and time again is that the load times are terrible. Not true. While there is a bit of a load time between the start and end of each battle, it's really not that bad. Certainly not nearly as bad as the loads in Unreal 2, the current grand champion of horrible load times. They're noticeable, but not that bad.
If you can get 2 or 3 other players to play against in Wrath, check it out. It's a very entertaining game once everyone figures out the mechanics of it. There's a singleplayer component to it, but I haven't touched that yet. I could see the singleplayer getting boring early on, though. I only reccomend this if you got some friends to play against. I really dig this game.
Also of note. This game was created by The Collective. The same developers who made the original Buffy game (the Xbox exclusive one) and the Indiana Jones game. Good pedigree in my mind.
Anyone else grab this game? Any other thoughts or questions?